What is the illumination of the law?

Not what you have lost, but what you could not give! Not what you suffer, no matter where, for your personal privation, but what you are powerless to give others is the illumination of the law. So long as those without money bemoan their personal privation, they will be poor over and over again. Until they see that poverty prevents them from helping those in a worse plight, they have missed their lesson.

To serve your fellows is one of the two fundamental means of growth. Until you accept that, you remain in the kindergarten of life and suffer blindly.